Software Engineering for Rapidly Growing Teams

A small collection of (mostly) evergreen books that cover the fundamentals for success in rapidly growing software organizations.

Topics include: interpersonal skills, business models, management, foundations of computer science, principles of modern software, and a few widely used modern tools.

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1	The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 20,782 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
1	Essential Software Development by AppJungle NET LLC 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler 4.12 avg rating — 3,865 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Unit Testing: Principles, Practices, and Patterns by Vladimir Khorikov (Goodreads Author) 4.57 avg rating — 582 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin 4.36 avg rating — 23,080 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Micro Frontends in Action by Michael Geers (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 121 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective by Randal E. Bryant 4.46 avg rating — 1,115 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well by Douglas Stone 4.06 avg rating — 9,562 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers (The Strategyzer Series 1) by Alexander Osterwalder (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 58,437 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series) by Fowler Martin 4.24 avg rating — 8,781 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Head First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman 4.30 avg rating — 8,951 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Evans Eric 4.15 avg rating — 5,752 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker 4.08 avg rating — 37,352 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions by Gayle Laakmann McDowell (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 6,887 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) by Ian Goodfellow 4.44 avg rating — 2,082 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 138,628 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann (Goodreads Author) 4.70 avg rating — 10,104 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	System Design Interview – An insider's guide by Alex Xu 4.27 avg rating — 3,098 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Engineering Leadership Interviews: Lessons Learned and Best Practices Gathered from Interviews with Top Engineering Leaders Around the World by Vidal Graupera 3.63 avg rating — 27 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser 4.23 avg rating — 30,370 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Pro React 16 by Adam Freeman 4.13 avg rating — 31 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology by Gayle Laakmann McDowell (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 4,206 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Kubernetes in Action by Marko Luksa 4.59 avg rating — 669 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1: The Protocols (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) by W. Richard Stevens 4.32 avg rating — 1,302 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems by Sam Newman 4.22 avg rating — 5,130 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Alfred V. Aho 4.10 avg rating — 3,007 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Continuous delivery by Jez Humble (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 3,292 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	The Elements Of Computing Systems: Building A Modern Computer From First Principles by Noam Nisan 4.54 avg rating — 940 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Threat Modeling: Designing for Security by Adam Shostack (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 284 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Operations Anti-Patterns, DevOps Solutions by Jeffery D. Smith 4.08 avg rating — 63 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S. Raymond 4.18 avg rating — 1,263 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Algorithms by Robert Sedgewick 4.42 avg rating — 1,813 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction by Trevor Hastie 4.43 avg rating — 1,873 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 16,901 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum 4.15 avg rating — 2,180 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 34,314 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Concepts of Modern Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics) by Ian Stewart 4.12 avg rating — 595 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data by Charles Wheelan 3.96 avg rating — 14,910 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	A Little History of Economics by Niall Kishtainy (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 5,703 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms by David J.C. MacKay 4.52 avg rating — 487 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by Marty Cagan 4.26 avg rating — 3,587 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars